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   Apple Developer Services Now Back Online

   Josh Centers

   Apple sent email to developers announcing that its developer services
   are now fully restored after a nearly month-long outage. To help make
   up for the inconvenience, Apple is extending all developer
   subscriptions by one month. It's believed that Apple took the Developer
   Center offline after security researcher Ibrahim Balic publicly
   revealed a method of obtaining personal information about subscribers
   (see '[1]Researcher May Have Caused Apple Developer Center Shutdown,'
   22 July 2013). In the interim, Apple released a status page so that
   developers can check which developer systems are online (see '[2]Apple
   Deploys Developer Center System Status Page,' 25 July 2013).

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References

   1. http://tidbits.com/article/13948
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/13960
   3. http://tidbits.com/resources/2013-08/Developer-online.png

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